supplementary notes

for my benefit

Sunday, February 14, 2010

⇒ other delayed posts #3

cuttlefish > octopus

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

⇒ domesticated cat


fuzzy fuzzy cute cute

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Friday, August 21, 2009

⇒ courtesy of MAKE

Hellraiser Le Merchant box:


DIY Inclinometer:

It measures the inclination using water

Mercury fountain:

quicksilver fascinates me

Beetle shell ceiling:

take a closer look

Amputee Elephant:


one of my favorite sea creatures, in Lego form: Nautilus


Paper carving:



Detonography: Sculpting metal with explosives

"a technique for embossing thick metal plates by blasting them onto a mold with sheets of plastic explosive"

Pitch drop experiment:

need to know: bitumen, started in 1927, eight years for the first drop, about one every 11 years = eight to date

DIY trebuchet bundle:


Willow architecture:


Python in a browser

3D etch a sketch:


NY sand table challenge:


Infernal machine art:


Rare lumber


related:
Shapeways
printing in stainless steel

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Monday, July 20, 2009

⇒ games, tech roundup


Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 gets reviewed, recommended



COD: MW2 prestige edition

depending on the price, I'd get it just for the night vision goggles!


Black & White Clock concept



Fujifilm's FinePix Real 3D camera



Olympus E-P1 hands-on, test shots, and mini-review



AstroScope 9350EOS-FF adds night vision to your Canon DSLR



What’s Inside Blizzard’s Library?



joystiq Review: BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger



visceral games' logo design



ward jenkins' site



Canon unveils augmented reality dinosaur show in Japan


headlines:
solar e-ink display | MIT researchers weave "flexible camera" out of fiber web | Google announces Chrome OS | Carbon ring storage promises 1,000 times higher memory density | Sony patents new Cell-based PS2 emulator | Epson begins mass-producing 'world's smallest' LCD for 3LCD data projectors | Blizzard: the workplace | GameFly launches Flash game site Ponged.com | PEW! PEW! video game soundbytes | Wired's guide to civil disobedience via piracy:
If You Can't Buy It Online, Feel Free to BitTorrent | surprisingly accurate list:
5 Most Boring Video Games Ever | video of michael jackson's accident 20+ years ago | SF2 in browser! | Star Wars Old Republic webcomic | game design conundrum: swimming | get around baffling jargon with this,
guide to buying graphics cards | voda call diversion editing | most disturbing animals pt3
they live up to their names! | chun li evolution

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

⇒ misc

joey chestnut eats 68 hotdogs in 10 mins to win competitive eating c'ships
that include the bun?


strawberry peanut m&m's


mac pro pci slots

disturbing animals

Nike + Hasbro = transformers sneakers:


michael jackson auction items

more MJ noise:
http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/06/the-one-michael-jackson-article-you-have-to-read-his-death-predicted/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196009/Im-better-dead-Im-How-Michael-Jackson-predicted-death-months-ago.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1196369/New-pictures-Michael-Jackson-hard-work-rehearsing-just-days-died.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1196395/Lisa-Marie-Presley-said-passionate-lover-So-WAS-truth-Jacksons-sexuality.html
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2009/06/my-hero-aint-molest-them-btch-ss-kids
http://www.rapradar.com/focus/michael-jackson-tried-to-dead-50-cent-x-game-beef.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1196395/Lisa-Marie-Presley-said-passionate-lover-So-WAS-truth-Jacksons-sexuality.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jermaine-dupri/michael-jackson-beyond-gr_b_224789.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/06/quincy-jones-on-michael-jackson-we-owned-the-80s-and-our-souls-would-be-connected-forever.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/endless-music-in-michael-_n_224525.html
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29050662/michael_jackson_remembered_weird_al_yankovic_on_imitation_as_flattery

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

⇒ w20 d3

week has just flown right by!
cracked articles: http://www.cracked.com/article_16556_15-images-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped.html

coconut crabs: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/coconut-crabs.html
they're friggin' huge

grand prismatic spring: http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/08/01/grand-prismatic-spring/
real purdy like...

'black hole' house:
http://www.hemmy.net/2007/06/11/inversion-house-tunnel-art/

5 most badass presidents
http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_5-most-badass-presidents-all-time.html
I know I've posted this before but re-reading it is still funny.

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Monday, April 07, 2008

⇒ tiger!




bonus:


favorite animals: tiger, orang-utan

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Thursday, March 06, 2008

⇒ squid vids

squishy freaks:


also freaky: Michael Jackson's 'Ghost' feature


very useful stuff about google search:
http://www.googleguide.com/cached_pages.html
http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html#cache

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Sunday, February 17, 2008

⇒ stuff: part CCCXCIII

the Bering strait: all that separates Siberia and Alaska. About 92km across and not that deep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoopraxiscope
Zoopraxiscope-developed by Eadward Muybridge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Asian_Water_Buffalo
http://www.horselocomotion.com/

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Monday, February 11, 2008

⇒ cracked

the writing style has won me over:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15819_5-movie-martial-artists-that-lost-deathmatch-dignity.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15679_5-upcoming-comic-book-movies-that-must-be-stopped.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15859_10-words-phrases-you-wont-believe-shakespeare-invented.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_15001_insane-japanese-halloween-costumes.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15670_25-most-baffling-toys-from-around-world.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15833_9-most-racist-disney-characters.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_15062_ridiculous-overseas-rip-offs-american-films.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15856_7-most-unforgivable-grammy-award-snubs-all-time.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_15827_pimp-my-plate-most-retardedly-expensive-5-course-meal.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html

http://www.cracked.com/article_15714_9-most-unnecessary-greatest-hits-albums-all-time.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html

Tyson, the skateboarding bulldog http://www.skateboardingbulldog.com/
when will my dog be this awesome?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins
original 'the thing' script:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Highrise/3756/jc/who/bonusid.htm

superman III: the smallville cut here: http://fanedit.org/wpTF/?p=303

the truth behind chimps and dolphins:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature4/online_extra2.html
http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/0999/199909outthere.html
they have homicidal tendencies

Come to me, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod!

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Saturday, May 26, 2007

⇒ concentrate! twice as hard!

X-HTML5 vs. X-HTML2 article | X-HTML and the future of web | 10 websites killed by legality |

logitech speakers I've upgraded to here. Went from the x-230 to x-530 yowza! cost difference of only $10! | lil' bastard kills a half-tonne pig-God here. Nothing heroic about this. Killing anything with a pistol ain't nothin' but chicken sh!t. Jeez, what a prick. Also managed to kill a deer when he was 5. Quickly on his way to becoming the next Dubya

Empire's star wars covers

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